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A case report of a rare intramuscular granular cell tumor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Granular cell tumors (GCTs) were firstly described by Weber in 1854 and 70 years later by Abrikossoff and classified as benign tumors. Originally considered muscle tumors, they have been identified as neural lesions, due to their close ...
Cacciotti, Jessica   +8 more
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A Comparison between Symmetry of Abdominal Muscle Size in Healthy Adolescents and Adolescents with Low Back Pain

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Low back pain (LBP) is a musculoskeletal disorder and a relatively common complaint. Muscles, as the most important stabilizers of the spine, are impaired in patients with LBP. The aim of this study is to compare the symmetry of
N Rahmani   +4 more
doaj  

Can hepatic steatosis compromise the effect of physical exercise on body composition in obese children and adolescents?

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2017
Physical exercise is one of the forms of prevention and treatment of obesity and associated diseases such as hepatic steatosis. The aim of this study was to analyze whether hepatic steatosis interferes in the effect of physical exercise on the body ...
Bruna Thamyres Ciccotti Saraiva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ectopic cardiovascular fat in middle-aged men: effects of race/ethnicity, overall and central adiposity. The ERA JUMP study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background/objectivesHigher volumes of ectopic cardiovascular fat (ECF) are associated with greater risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Identifying factors that are associated with ECF volumes may lead to new preventive efforts to reduce risk of CHD ...
Barinas-Mitchell, E   +17 more
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Does Weight Status Impact Metabolic Health in Adolescents When Controlling for Physical Fitness? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose: To determines whether adolescents who are fit with overweight/obesity are similar in their metabolic profile to adolescents who are fit and normal weight. Methods: Adolescents participated in 3 sessions: (1) resting vitals and anthropometrics;
Bement, Marie K. Hoeger   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Maternal caregivers have confluence of altered cortisol, high reward-driven eating, and worse metabolic health. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Animal models have shown that chronic stress increases cortisol, which contributes to overeating of highly palatable food, increased abdominal fat and lower cortisol reactivity. Few studies in humans have simultaneously examined these trajectories.
Epel, Elissa S   +3 more
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Intra-Abdominal Fat, Lipid Metabolism and Insulin Resistance in Coronary Artery Disease

open access: yesHypertension Research, 1996
To investigate the metabolic and atherogenic effect of intra-abdominal fat accumulation, we examined correlation between variables of lipid and glucose and the fat distribution of abdominen by using computed tomography. Subjects were 292 of male and 161 of female who underwent coronary angiography.
T, Kawamoto, K, Ishikawa
openaire   +3 more sources

Fully Convolutional Networks for Automated Segmentation of Abdominal Adipose Tissue Depots in Multicenter Water-Fat MRI

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: An approach for the automated segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in multicenter water-fat MRI scans of the abdomen was investigated, using two different neural network architectures.
Ahlström, Håkan   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Antropometriai paraméterek diagnosztikus hatékonysága az elhízás, különös tekintettel a zsigeri zsírfelhalmozódás és bizonyos kardiovaszkuláris rizikótényezők tükrében [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Diagnostic efficiency of anthropometric parameters in the detection of obesity, with special regard to visceral adiposity and certain cardiovascular risk factors. The visceral adipose tissue carries greater risk of developing cardio-metabolic disorders
Pintér, Zoltán
core   +1 more source

Sexual dimorphism in the association of umbilical cord blood lipidome with abdominal fat in early childhood

open access: yesBMC Medicine
Background Although the associations between cord blood lipidome and neonatal birth weight are established, it remains uncertain whether sexual dimorphism in fetal fat accumulation extends to the relationship between cord blood lipid profiles and ...
Kothandaraman Narasimhan   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

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